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Than a perpetual honour. Darest thou die? |
The sense of death is most in apprehension; |
And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, |
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great |
As when a giant dies. |
CLAUDIO: |
Why give you me this shame? |
Think you I can a resolution fetch |
From flowery tenderness? If I must die, |
I will encounter darkness as a bride, |
And hug it in mine arms. |
ISABELLA: |
There spake my brother; there my father's grave |
Did utter forth a voice. Yes, thou must die: |
Thou art too noble to conserve a life |
In base appliances. This outward-sainted deputy, |
Whose settled visage and deliberate word |
Nips youth i' the head and follies doth emmew |
As falcon doth the fowl, is yet a devil |
His filth within being cast, he would appear |
A pond as deep as hell. |
CLAUDIO: |
The prenzie Angelo! |
ISABELLA: |
O, 'tis the cunning livery of hell, |
The damned'st body to invest and cover |
In prenzie guards! Dost thou think, Claudio? |
If I would yield him my virginity, |
Thou mightst be freed. |
CLAUDIO: |
O heavens! it cannot be. |
ISABELLA: |
Yes, he would give't thee, from this rank offence, |
So to offend him still. This night's the time |
That I should do what I abhor to name, |
Or else thou diest to-morrow. |
CLAUDIO: |
Thou shalt not do't. |
ISABELLA: |
O, were it but my life, |
I'ld throw it down for your deliverance |
As frankly as a pin. |
CLAUDIO: |
Thanks, dear Isabel. |
ISABELLA: |
Be ready, Claudio, for your death tomorrow. |
CLAUDIO: |
Yes. Has he affections in him, |
That thus can make him bite the law by the nose, |
When he would force it? Sure, it is no sin, |
Or of the deadly seven, it is the least. |
ISABELLA: |
Which is the least? |
CLAUDIO: |
If it were damnable, he being so wise, |
Why would he for the momentary trick |
Be perdurably fined? O Isabel! |
ISABELLA: |
What says my brother? |
CLAUDIO: |
Death is a fearful thing. |
ISABELLA: |
And shamed life a hateful. |
CLAUDIO: |
Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; |
To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; |
This sensible warm motion to become |
A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit |
To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside |
In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; |
To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, |
And blown with restless violence round about |
The pendent world; or to be worse than worst |
Of those that lawless and incertain thought |
Imagine howling: 'tis too horrible! |
The weariest and most loathed worldly life |
That age, ache, penury and imprisonment |
Can lay on nature is a paradise |
To what we fear of death. |
ISABELLA: |
Alas, alas! |
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